Audio Help Wanted!

[JMac]

I have an audio file (voice with music) that has 1-2 small pieces of distortion that I want to get rid of. I know this can be difficult to remove but if you think you are able to do this please PM me. Also please give me a quote on how much this would cost.

Thanks.

[Robert Adams]

I'm not much of an audio expert myself, but there is a free program called Audacity. Maybe you could download it, and see if that could help you clean it up...

[cmchamp]

It depends on the 'distortion' present. Feel free to send me the the file, but depending on how 'saturated' the distortion is, or if it's digital distortion, we'll see what I can do with it.
C.

[JMac]

Here is the WAV file if anyone wants to take a crack at it:

www.shiftback.com/file/voice.wav

Problems:
00:16
1:02
1:55
2:07
2:05

It seems as though I have a lot more problems then I thought I did. If no one is able to fix it I might just re-record it all again. I really don't want to do this because it is all timed to video.

[scmatthew]

JMac,

Take a listen and let me know what you think.
Audio File

The distortion at :11 is still present. If it works, fine. If not I'll delete it and save Tim's server space.

Steven

[JMac]

Thanks for the hard work. I downloaded the file so if you want to delete it you can.

It seems as though if I want to do this right I should really re-record the voice over.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Originally Posted by scmatthew

JMac,

Take a listen and let me know what you think.
Audio File

The distortion at :11 is still present. If it works, fine. If not I'll delete it and save Tim's server space.

Steven

[scmatthew]

Then back to the drawing board it is.

Steven

[Doyen]

the file I just downloaded from above has some mutes in the first few locations you mentioned (instead of distortion). Do you still have the original file. I've done similar work to lots of audio files in the past and I've gotten pretty good at it. Most of the time just adjusting the eq of a segment does wonders. I'm happy to give it a shot.

[kerwin kanago]

I just took a listen. This may be obvious to you already...

All the distortion is over drive. Just too much volume on the peaks, causing clipping due to the limits of the record hardware, file format, etc. Most of it is excessive sibilance (say that 5 times fast) but one is a plosive B. One "s" ends with a slight whistle that must have hit the room's resonant frequency because it goes on quite a bit.

A declipping, followed by taking the volume down on those peaks, then a little custom eq on those segments (as Doyen suggests) to roll off the highs of those esses, followed by re-normalizing the whole thing in and it doesn't sound too bad.

If you do re-record, you might move the mic just slightly to the side of the speakers mouth.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you want to hear what I did (was just 10 min worth of work, and I didn't hear the other clean up attempt before you removed that from the server).